From The Christmas Creature, Fake Diesel,to the God damn dentist known as Isaac Yankem, all
lead up to what is know as Kane, the Undertaker's brother AKA The Devils Greatest Demon, to what
they know him as now, Tipsy Grandpa, the Demon know as Kane has been through many image
changes. The 20+ year career of the one time WWE, World Heavyweight, and ECW champion, Kane
has been full of ups and downs. (PS whatculture.com covers this in a near 6 minute list of 10
Things WWE wants you to forget about Kane, which I will link here for you. and yest I got the
Tipsy Grandpa line from them) ( https://youtu.be/fEiV1Dz94BM )
One of Kane's more unknown runs when he was the Christmas Creature, however this did not last
that long. The run was in USWA wrestling promotion. He only appeared once in this gimmick, so I
can't say much about this, except for what the hell where they thinking dressing someone up as a
Christmas Tree?
In 1996, after the real Diesel and Razor Ramon left the WWE, Vince McMahon decided to have
Glenn Jacobs, AKA Kane, and a wrestler named Rick Bognar take up the names of the two icons.
However, it did not go well with the fans. The two where just seen as knock offs of the originals.
It was defiantly one of the worst things Glenn had to do, and the fans hated every minute of it. The
gimmick lasted until the Royal Rumble, where Fake Diesel made his last appearance as #3 in the
Rumble match.
Now we get to the time when Glenn had to play a wrestling dentist by the name of Isaac Yankem.... I
hate wrestling sometimes. Because he was a dentist, he would remove opponent's teeth with a clamp.
This gimmick did not do well either, only lasting from 1995-1996.
Now we get to Kane. He had one of the best debuts of all time, when in 1997, he interfered in a hell
in the cell match between The Undertaker, his brother, and Shawn Michaels. He walked down to the
ring, and ripped the cell door off its hinges, marched in, hit his brother with Taker's own finisher, the
Tombstone Piledriver, and allowed Shawn to win the match. At the time, he was the scariest thing in
wrestling, and he could back it up in the ring as well. He is still going strong as the Big Red Monster,
with 3 World Championships under his belt, along with 12 Tag Team Championships, 2
Intercontinental championships, 1 Hardcore title win, Money in the Bank, 2 time WWE Slammy
winner, most appearances in the Royal Rumble with 19, and the most eliminations in the Royal
Rumble of all time at 43. Ever since his debut as Kane, Glenn Jacobs has experienced one of the
greatest careers in wrestling of all time, and is a sure fired addition to WWE's Hall of Fame when he
finally retires.
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